[Fwd: Re: [techtalk] Learning more about Linux ...]

[Melissa Plunkett]

Doh!  I sent it to Jeff only, sorry Jeff...let's try this again...

Jeff Frasca wrote:
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> > > What good resources are there that describe things like the above?  Are
> > > there any books that anyone can recommend?
> 
> Once you've gone through a book that gets you started, or if you have a
> working knowledge of how to *use* a Unix system -- you can get around
> the fs, run some commands, get stuff done -- the best book I've found to
> answer the questions you've asked (and some other good questions you
> didn't ask, but will later) is Essential System Administration, by
> Æleen Frisch (yep, another O'Reilly book...).
> 
> Jeff

Excellent recommendation Jeff!  Another good general Unix reference 
(which also has specific examples for Unix flavors like HP, IRIX, 
Sun, *BSD) is "The Unix System Administration Handbook". 
Another good and very general book "Unix: for Programmers and Users". 
I know these are both Unix books and not Linux but for someone wanting 
to learn the general stuff really well so as to be able to hop from 
flavor/distro to flavor/distro these books are some of the best (that 
and being best friends w/ the man pages and howtos).  

Hey perhaps all of us can review our favorite books that we are posting
and then put them on the linuxchix.org site and/or FAQ?

-Melissa